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<blockquote data-quote="d3cadent" data-source="post: 275489" data-attributes="member: 72906">Hi gurus and forumers,my system is a core2duo, with a hardware mpeg2 analog tuner. I use MP 1.0 RC1.When TVServer is recording a program in the background or is doing timeshifting (without any clients connected, so recording is done only), my CPU load jumps up to somewhere between 25% ad 50%. This, in a dual core setup means that one core is utilised to 50%-100%. Usually, watching a program is utilizing the cpu to only a marginal level - it seems rcording is the task that takes this much.I have always been under the assumption that a hardware MPEG2 encoder is supposed to take quite some load off the CPU during recording. Do you think this high cpu is normal? What is the actual reason for such a high CPU requirement? Is there something I could do to make utilisation lower?(well, this last question is a comfort question. In my home the room temperature during summer can go up to 25-28 degrees celsius, and in such warm environment the cpu fan starts making more noise under higher loads. I would like to make less noise for my family.)Thx, tom</blockquote>

[QUOTE="d3cadent, post: 275489, member: 72906"] Hi gurus and forumers, my system is a core2duo, with a hardware mpeg2 analog tuner. I use MP 1.0 RC1. When TVServer is recording a program in the background or is doing timeshifting (without any clients connected, so recording is done only), my CPU load jumps up to somewhere between 25% ad 50%. This, in a dual core setup means that one core is utilised to 50%-100%. Usually, watching a program is utilizing the cpu to only a marginal level - it seems rcording is the task that takes this much. I have always been under the assumption that a hardware MPEG2 encoder is supposed to take quite some load off the CPU during recording. Do you think this high cpu is normal? What is the actual reason for such a high CPU requirement? Is there something I could do to make utilisation lower? (well, this last question is a comfort question. In my home the room temperature during summer can go up to 25-28 degrees celsius, and in such warm environment the cpu fan starts making more noise under higher loads. I would like to make less noise for my family.) Thx, tom [/QUOTE]

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